The Practice of Modernism

Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in the saga of post-war urban reconstruction.

John R. Gold is Professor of Urban Geography and a member of the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at Oxford Brookes University UK. The winner of the 1999 Aesop Prize, his main research interests are in the impact of architectural modernism on urban renewal and in the history of urban festivals.

1. On the Threshold 2. Practising Modernism 3 Private and Public 4. Professions 5. Towards Renewal 6. Heart and Soul 7. Second Generation 8. The Pursuit of Numbers 9. With Social Intent 10. Succession 11. Late-Flowering Modernism 12. Storm Clouds